Ah, yes, of course you're right; your stone dial is not an analemmatic dial,
but a horizontal dial with the hourly analemmas and declination and dates
among the dial furniture.
And, yes, I've also long been an admirer, too, of the simple analemmatic
dial painted on the sidewalk at the entrance
Hello Joe:
And it's a pleasure hearing from you!
I remembered your email to the list long ago and the gist of its
contents, but I didn't remember your name. I'm not a webmaster, so
unfortunately I can't help out in making an on line Sundial Email List
Archive. I suggested it, hoping one of
It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
The presence of the sundial archive on YAHOO! is something I brought up
about a year ago. No one replied, I don't believe. I think no one knew
then
the origin of those postings which were transferred, _en masse_, to YAHOO!
It's been a standing myst
It is a pleasure for me to make the following announcement:
New sundial by Todor Todorov ARBS could be seen at
http://vr.ourserver.net/plamen/Projects.htm
Todor Todorov ARBS
www.todor.org
Unfortunately, the attempt of the author to send a message to the sundial
list was not successful and
Dear Chris
> I would argue that the rhumb line is itself virtually obsolete.
I readily accept your line of thought, but a rhumb line legacy
is still very much with us. I refer, of course, to Mercator's
Projection where all straight lines are projections of Rhumb
Lines.
Mercator's is probably t
For a very complete discussion of qibla definition and determination, see:
http://www.patriot.net/users/abdali/ftp/qibla.pdf.
Very briefly, the quibla from any point is defined as the great circle between
the point and Mecca. This is, however, a subject of some controversy within
the Muslim
Frank Evans wrote:
From: "Frank Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundial"
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:19 AM
Subject: east and west, an afterthought
> Greetings fellow dialists,
> I showed the east west problem of the Belfast Muslims to an old sea
> captain acquaintance of mine (we were
I showed the east west problem of the Belfast Muslims to an old sea
captain acquaintance of mine (we were shipmates sixty years ago) and
although he did not offer a solution he came up with the following:
Belfast to Mecca
Rhumb line: 133.2 deg true, 2913.5 nautical miles
Great circle: 115.1 d
